Can I assume you've not looked at any of the offerings from Estes in the past 8 years since there are LOTS of stuff that aren't simple 3 fins and a nose cone.

John Boren

Yeah, I've looked at plenty of Estes's offerings and bought more than a few... Love the sci-fi type kits and scale rockets.

I'm just commenting that basically those of us flying BP motors, primarily LPR/MPR, and not composite motors, rely primarily upon Estes for our motors. I bought quite a few of the Quest motors and they're good for *certain things* (light rockets you want to fly really high) but the "flea fart" ejections have bit me more than once... Of course with Quest not even really a player any more, that means we're even MORE reliant on Estes for a good selection and size of black powder rocket motors.

Like I said, "kits I can get anywhere"-- there are literally DOZENS of rocket vendors and companies manufacturing kits of various types and kinds nowdays, but when it comes to black powder motors, Estes is pretty much it...

Later! OL J R

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Estes has offered loads of great kits the past 5-6 years, including one I NEVER thought we would get, the 1/45 Centuri Little Joe II.
Now if we could get both the 1/70 and 1/100 Saturn 1B and the K-21 Gemini Titan back it would be amazing !

Absolutely... OL JR

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Yeah sad story but my buddy Dave here on the forum came out to the farm one time and went to fly his beautiful FSI Maverick (IIRC) on an E9 and got the dreaded "blast deflector ping" right at liftoff, as the motor spit the nozzle, and slid right back down the rod just after first motion, and sat there with the back end of the motor puking out low pressure flame and smoke for the entire duration of the burn and delay grain, thoroughly roasting the entire aft end and fins of the rocket... Though he did rebuild it, you still hate to see it happen, have it just sitting there burning and you can't do anything about it...

Still, I have gotten a LOT of really nice flights out of E9's and I'll hate to see that motor go... While it wasn't for EVERY 24 mm motor mount rocket, it was a great performer in the ones it WAS a good fit for (like the Canadian Arrow).

Later! OL J R

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